Day spirit
Tiān Láo
Heavenly Prison
An almanac describes traditional day-types. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children. Burial, marriage and medical items on these pages are what a book states, never advice.
In the classical sources
河魁者天獄戌獄而辰刑
The River Chief is the heavenly prison: 戌 is the prison and 辰 the punishment.
協紀辨方書 卷七
About this entry
Ninth on the ring, 天牢 begins at 申 in the first month and belongs to the black-path six. The word prison is the label of a star position, and another form of it is 天獄. 曹震圭 sets it between 朱雀 and 明堂 so that, in his reading, the law stays open and fair.
邵泰衢 complains that some books took another name, 天岳, a mountain, for a good term and so listed the spirit as yellow. 協紀辨方書 卷七 puts it at 戌, the branch of the star 河魁, and cites 史記 on 戌 as the place where things reach their end. Neither account makes any statement about a person.
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